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CSC
Student Terminal Area - A New Look
By
Joe Lee
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The CSC Student Terminal
Area has undergone significant changes this summer to enhance
its teaching and learning environments. Various aspects, including
furniture, hardware, operating system and software, have been
upgraded. Staff and students will surely enjoy working in this
improved environment.
Furniture
Do you still remember the heavy and
dark gray computer carrels in the CSC Student Terminal Area? They
were gone forever! This furniture has been used for over 10 years
and was rather worn-out. Also, the outdated design of these carrels
has caused many problems for our maintenance work. Now, there
are newly designed carrels that are lighter, easier for maintenance
work, and laminated with brighter colours. Besides, they are designed
to house larger monitors and to provide convenient access to power
sources and computer interfaces.
Hardware
On the surface of these new carrels
are the 17” colour monitors. Coming in hand-in-hand with
the new computer carrels are the most advanced DELL Optiplex GX400
PCs with the following configuration:
This configuration should
meet the most demanding operating system and applications for the
next two to three years. With the CD-RW drive, students can easily
backup large graphical files, programming projects, data, and so
on.
In addition to the above, all monitors
in teaching studios A, B, C, D, I, M and O have been replaced
with 15” LCD monitors. This can reduce the blocking of view
and improve the eye contact between the instructor and students.
Operating Environment
After the removal of the DOS/Windows
3.1/Windows 95 environments, Windows 2000 together with the multi-language
packs has been installed. In other words, only Windows 2000 and
Chinese/English Windows 98 are available. In the future, newly
acquired software packages will be installed in the Windows 2000
environment.
Software
All software packages under the Microsoft
Campus License Agreement have been installed. Besides, the following
have also been upgraded/installed during this summer:
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Adobe Photoshop
6.0
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Macromedia Web Design
Studio (Flash 5, Dreamweaver 4, Fireworks 4, Freehand 10)
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Microsoft Visio
2000 Standard Edition and Technical Edition
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CorelDRAW 10
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Q9 2001 Chinese
Input Method
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SPSS 10
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PenPower Chinese
Input Writing Pad 8.0
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Ulead PhotoImpact
6.0
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Adaptec Easy CD
Creator 4.0
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Adaptec DirectCD
3.0
The upgrade of the CSC Student Terminal
Area will certainly give a fresh and friendly atmosphere when you
come and work in here again.
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